The Certified Product Owner course teaches a subset of topics, such as product ownership, Scrum Framework, and Agile Values. Participants will make a joint priority decision on which they agree on as most important, just like real-life Product Owners do every day.

This course is intended for anyone who will actively participate in a project using this approach. People on the edges of the project (secondary customers, management staff, and participants in related processes) will also benefit. Project teams are encouraged to attend as a group.

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* Product Ownership

• Your organization may encounter challenges to product ownership
• The Product Owner job has three main dimensions that make it a very large job for one person

* Opening

• The overall objectives of the course are listed
• The course materials include too much information for the time available. What shall we do?

* Scrum Planning

• Scrum planning is continuous
• Scrum planning happens at 5 levels, each with a different time horizon
• The Product Backlog is the primary source of work to be completed and value to be delivered

* Product Vision

• The Vision describes the purpose of the product to be created or enhanced
• There are several ways to present the vision as a common goal for the Scrum Team
• The Vision is the inspiration for the Product Backlog

Product Roadmap

• Roadmapping is a tool for creating a longer-term release strategy
• Roadmaps describe the product in very high-level terms

* User Stories

• User Stories are simple descriptions of desired functionality
• Stories are elaborated just-in-time for implementation
• Stories are used for planning
• The INVEST Criteria help us write good stories

* Prioritization

• Priorities help the Scrum Team decide what to do next
• Priorities help with long term planning
• Prioritization can be done in many ways, based on many criteria

Estimation

• Agile estimation is done at both the high level and the low level
• Estimates are used for planning and for tracking progress
• Estimates are done quickly, by the Development Team
• Estimates are not commitments

* Just in Time Elaboration

• Story elaboration is done just in time to reduce wasted time defining details that may never get used
• Details are provided to the Dev Team as conversations, acceptance criteria, and speclets
• Details may also lead to story splits 

* Release Planning 

• There are two basic product release strategies based on time and scope
• Risk is reduced by including slack in the plan
• Release tracking and forecasting are based on real data about actual products completed

FAQ/Parking Lot

• What questions remain?

Product Ownership Review

• The Product Owner is a navigator in the world of profit-making
• What skills would you look for in a Product Owner?

* Closing

• More information for Product Owners
• Wrapping up

* Agile Principles

• Agile software development implements Lean principles and dynamics
• The primary driver of Agile work is Value
• Scrum is one form of Agile, designed initially for software development, but applicable to other kinds of work

* Scrum Framework

• Scrum has 4 meetings and 3 artifacts
• Scrum has 3 roles that share the responsibility of creating value in small increments
• The roles complement each other to create a balanced team

Story Splitting

• Smaller stories are easier to work with and enhance the flow
• Smaller stories give us more options to reduce the scope

* Working with the Dev Team

• The Dev Team may propose stories for the Product Backlog
• Teams take time to mature
• The Dev Team is self-organizing
• Awareness of effective motivators can help build a high-performance team

Working with the ScrumMaster

• The ScrumMaster is your partner in achieving a smooth flow and continuous improvement
• The ScrumMaster is a productivity multiplier for the Team

Working with Stakeholders

• Customers are not your only Stakeholders
• You can’t please everyone all the time

Agile Testing

• Testing during the Sprint
• Agile testing practices
• Roles/responsibilities in testing:

* Scrum Meetings

• Scrum organizes work into 1-4 week time boxes called Sprints
• Each Sprint has 4 primary meetings
• The bulk of the time is spent creating value in the form of a product

* Product Backlog Management

• A well-managed Product Backlog keeps the Development Team running smoothly
• A 1-sprint look-ahead on stories will help the flow
• The Team needs details Just In Time
• Defining Ready and Done will dramatically reduce time waste

Electives

• Where Do Stories Come From?
• Agile Teams may build products faster than traditional methods can discover user needs
• There are a few more Agile methods for finding customer needs

Budget and Finance

• Budgeting relies on Release Planning
• Velocity is the primary unknown in budget requests
• Some organizations are moving to more Agile budgeting models

Scaling Scrum Up and Out

• Scrum can scale to many Teams
• Distributed Scrum is constrained by the laws of physics but there are patterns that can help

Portfolio Management

• Agile and Scrum concepts can be applied at the product portfolio level

Homework

• Read 2 articles
• Discuss one

Focus and Flow

• Scrum works best when the Team achieves a smooth flow of work
• Scrum dynamics are based on the mathematics of queuing theory that we use to manage the Internet
• Continuous improvement is an underlying goal of Scrum

Other Prioritization Tools

• Relative Weighting can be applied to Stories
• Financial Projection can be applied to Releases and Features
• Innovation Games can quickly get input from your customers

Action Plan (Private classes only)

• What concrete actions can we take to incorporate these concepts in our Scrum work?  

• Anyone who will actively participate in a project using this approach
• People on the edges of the project (secondary customers, management staff, and participants in related processes) will also benefit.
• Project teams are encouraged to attend as a group. 

• None

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